See, I believe I exposed ignorance, not that I am sad about it.
I thought that ADR was an alternative to "real" law and that those who went to law school wouldn't chose ADR, as there is less pretige there. This was all "guesses" made by me that turned out it be wrong.
It's kind of like this...one can be a MD with 20934376437 years of med school or one could be a RN in just a few. The payoff for the RN is much quicker. However, the RN is less prestigous than the MD. The only people I know (including myself) who has pursued either MD or PhD is because people would call them "Dr. Soandso". It wasn't a question of determination or of intellect, it was more of a question of "time to payoff" Again I may be being falsely judgmental here, but in my career field a "new start" that's in their mid30s won't stand a chance against a 24year old (unless the guy has a STRONG engineering background). I am not sure how other professions discriminate against age. The reasoning behind it is because the time one is 30s they have enough experience to understand the market to make good decisions.